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11-letter words containing p, e, n

  • appleringie — an aromatic shrubby wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of South Europe, having finely dissected leaves and small drooping heads of yellowish flowers
  • appointable — to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate: to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench.
  • appointment — The appointment of a person to a particular job is the choice of that person to do it.
  • apportioned — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
  • apportioner — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
  • apprecation — (obsolete) Earnest prayer; devout wish.
  • apprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of apprehend.
  • apprehender — Agent noun of apprehend; one who apprehends.
  • apprenticed — a person who works for another in order to learn a trade: an apprentice to a plumber.
  • apprentices — Plural form of apprentice.
  • appropinque — to approach
  • approvement — (obsolete, Old English law) Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord.
  • appurtenant — relating, belonging, or accessory
  • apron piece — (in a staircase) a header receiving the ends of rough strings, carriage pieces, and the joists of landings.
  • apron stage — a stage that projects into the auditorium so that the audience sit on three sides of it
  • araneomorph — (zoology) Any of the Araneomorphae, a suborder of spiders whose fangs cross with a pinching action.
  • arolla pine — a five-needled pine tree, Pinus cembra, found esp in mountain regions of Central Europe and yielding edible seeds
  • asperations — Plural form of asperation.
  • aspergation — the action of sprinkling, suffusing or irrigating with water
  • atriopeptin — any of several peptide hormones that are released by the atria of the heart in response to an abnormal increase in blood volume and that modulate blood pressure and the excretion of sodium, potassium, and water. Abbreviation: ANF.
  • attempering — Present participle of attemper.
  • banana peel — A banana peel is the same as a banana skin.
  • banded pack — two products which are held together with a band and sold together at a discounted price
  • basepersons — Plural form of baseperson.
  • bath sponge — any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.
  • battle plan — the strategy to be used in a military engagement.
  • battleplane — an airplane designed for combat; warplane.
  • beam weapon — a laser-beam or particle-beam weapon.
  • bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
  • bearing cap — A bearing cap is a rigid, semi-circular part that fits around one half of a bearing and secures it.
  • bed and pep — (of a stock-exchange transaction) complying with regulations for self-select PEPs, a shareholding being sold in the evening and bought back the next morning for the shareholder's own PEP
  • bedaux-plan — a system of payment for work on the basis of the number of points of work done in a given amount of time, each point representing one minute of work on a given job at a normal rate of speed.
  • behind post — one of the smaller outer posts inside which the ball must be kicked to score a behind
  • beilan pass — a mountain pass in SE Turkey near Syria. 2395 feet (730 meters).
  • bellerophon — a hero of Corinth who performed many deeds with the help of the winged horse Pegasus, notably the killing of the monster Chimera
  • bench press — a weight-training exercise in which a person lies on a bench and pushes a barbell upwards with both hands from chest level until the arms are straight, then lowers it again
  • bench-press — a weightlifting exercise in which one lies supine on a bench and with both hands pushes a barbell or fixed weight upward from chest level to arm's length and then lowers it back to chest level: usually repeated in sets.
  • benchership — the position of a bencher at the Inns of Court
  • beneplacito — an indication of approval
  • benthoscope — a deep-sea diving vessel
  • benzopyrene — an aromatic hydrocarbon, C20H12, found in coal tar, cigarette smoke, etc. and known to be a cause of cancer in animals
  • berry spoon — a small spoon, especially of the late 18th century, having a perforated bowl.
  • bicomponent — a fibre composed of two compounds
  • bipectinate — having both margins toothed like a comb, as the antennae of certain moths.
  • birthparent — a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption
  • bit pattern — (data)   A sequence of bits, in a memory, a communications channel or some other device. The term is used to contrast this with some higher level interpretation of the bits such as an integer or an image. A bit string is similar but suggests an arbitrary, as opposed to predetermined, length.
  • blanca peak — highest peak of the Sangre de Cristo range, S Colo.: 14,317 ft (4,364 m)
  • blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
  • block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
  • bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
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